T-Mobile beefs up its unlimited data plans with 70 more countries covered

The wireless carrier wars are continuing to heat up, this time internationally.

Today, T-Mobile announced it's expanding it’s Unlimited plan benefits by adding 70 more countries where customers get unlimited data (albeit slow 2G data speeds). This brings the total to 210 countries or destinations for T-Mobile One and legacy plan customers with Simple Global. 

Before you go celebrating the new coverage areas, it's important to note that in these countries, customers will not get access to free high-speed 4G LTE data, but rather unlimited data at 128kbps (aka 2G). So yes, this is a slow network, but it's better than nothing. Customers also get unlimited texts in these locations for free. Making phone calls internationally on T-Mobile will cost 25 cents a minute. With this change, there are no additional costs to customers either. Read more...